Thursday’s Resident Evil Showcase webcast featured a new story trailer for “The Winters’ Expansion,” CAPCOM’s future DLC for its Resident Evil Village game. Rose, the primary heroine of the expansion, is emphasized in the teaser, which also demonstrates the new third-person viewpoint. The expansion also has a new demo that runs for 60 minutes.

The expansion’s premiere is set on October 28. Three additional playable characters for the game’s Mercenaries mode and a new “Shadows of Rose” scenario taking place 16 years after the events of the original game are also included in the expansion.

On the same October 28 release date, Resident Evil Village will also receive a new Gold Edition. The original game, the Winters’ Expansion, and the Resident Evil Re:Verse multiplayer game, which launches on the same day, will all be included in the Gold Edition.

The eighth game in CAPCOM’s Resident Evil survival horror series is titled Resident Evil Village. In May 2021, the game was released for the PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC (Steam and Stadia) platforms.

The game’s plot is as follows, according to CAPCOM:

[Biohazard spoilers from Resident Evil 7; highlight to read.]

The release of Resident Evil Re:Verse was initially scheduled to coincide with the game, but it was postponed twice, first to July 2021 and then to 2022.

On March 24, 2023, CAPCOM will release a remake of their Resident Evil 4 game on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.